How to restore a backup

[Piggyback (René)]

Great instructions @tom_l !

Can I just add another option for backups which I use which is the backup to DropBox:

danielwelch/hassio-dropbox-sync

[tom_l]

A great addition. Go for it.

Edit: I had some other minor changes to make so I have also added the DropBox backup link.

[_pm (Peter)]

Since installation of 0.116.0 I got a lot of issues (mainly recorder) in the logs, decided to wait for an update, solutions seemed to be work in progress…
However after restarting my home-assistant install it was not reachable anymore. I could not get it to work again, so started with fresh install using whiskerz proxmox instruction, that worked fine.

Now let’s use the upload snapshot function… that results in:

(I get that message in Chrome, the new Edge does not report any issue).

How to proceed…?? I’ve tried restoring 116.0 and 115.x snapshots

edit: using 549mb sized snapshots

Next step I tried, completing the install of HA and Samba, copy back the backup. Then It complained:
[supervisor.snapshots.snapshot] Can't read snapshot tarfile /data/backup/e0ddd720.tar: "filename './snapshot.json' not found". It did execute the restore succesfully though.

12-10: I’ve checked the tar file, there is a snapshot.json in it and readable.

[tom_l]

For anyone else with this issue it should be fixed soon:

0.116 onboarding to a fresh install Bad Gateway message

There is a frontend bug open for it, it should ignore 502, since those are expected when the core restarts. Just wait

[stephack]

@tom_l

You can chose to repair this (search the forum for instructions) or delete it and start fresh

Can you post links to either/both of these procedures?
The best result to my searches is this thread…lol.

I have an sql error (searched that as well) that keeps reoccurring in my logs ever since I enabled the notification sensor in the android app. I don’t use MariaDB for historical purposes (use influxdb for that) so I would like to attempt a repair and if that fails just a fresh start. Any pointers would be appreciated.

[tom_l]

DB image malformed. How to fix it?

Hi, after some hussel around sd card images (i.e. restoring snapshots) and some updates this errors occures: 2018-11-01 22:37:01 ERROR (SyncWorker_4) [homeassistant.components.recorder.util] Error executing query: (sqlite3.DatabaseError) database disk image is malformed [SQL: 'SELECT events.event_id AS events_event_id, events.event_type AS events_event_type, events.event_data AS events_event_data, events.origin AS events_origin, events.time_fired AS events_time_fired, events.created AS events_c…

[stephack]

Thanks @tom_l
Sorry for not being clear in my initial reply. I’m not using the default db but MariaDB.
I found the solution in a github issue:

recorder error every few seconds

Switching the db url as follows resolved my issue.

db_url: mysql://db_user:db_pass@core-mariadb/homeassistant?charset= utf8mb4

[chemgeek (Brian)]

Where do I put the snapshot file in order to locate it upon booting the new install?

[tom_l]

Anywhere you can browse to on or from the machine you are using to connect to home assistant.

[systemsNinja]

I never get that restoring from snapshot page after the dialog box closes when I hit restore. Then when I try going to the page again I get a “empty reply” from HA.

help!!

[fyrmangeoff (Geoff)]

Attempting to restore a snapshot from HA on ubuntu to Pi4. Every time I attempt to restore the snapshot the notice “Fetch Failed” comes up. I have done this several times. separate Pi’s and separate sd cards. Does anyone have any ideas?

[nextxpert (Ray)]

I am seeing the same issue here trying to restore on a Pi4.

[HBDK]

Hi Tom, the snap-shipper add-on now also supports S3 storage.

[Burningstone]

May I add this to the guidelines on how to restore individual files from password protected snapshots?

Get files from password protected snapshot?

Here’s how you can do it on the Pi: In the folder where the .tar (not the extracted .tar.gz files) file is, create a new file decrypt.py nano decrypt.py Paste the following: #!/usr/bin/env python3 import sys import getopt import hashlib import tarfile import glob import os import shutil from pathlib import Path from cryptography.hazmat.backends import default_backend from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.ciphers import ( Cipher, algorithms, modes, ) def _password_to_key(passwor…

[tom_l]

Please do.

[admun (Edmond Hui)]

I am trying to do a fresh install after 2021.2 seem trashed my setup… but after upload snapshot tar, I am no seeing the checkbox shows up to select restore. Is there bug?

I am on pi 4, 4GB, using hassio 5.10 32-bit. My snapshot is from 2021.1

[Piggyback (René)]

Do you see the snapshot in HA - Supervisor -> snapshot? If not, then first restart HA. Once you see it, you should be able to click on the backup and select restore.

[admun (Edmond Hui)]

Since I ran into multiple issues on 2021.2, so I ended up downgrade to 2021.1.4.

After that I can upload the snapshot, then the selection shows up. But nothing seem to happen when I click “restore all”. There is no restore in progress box showing, not sure if there is action in the background, but there is no indication on the GUI.

So, I login from console, and saw the snapshot uploaded. I finished the restore from console.

I am running over wifi, using Chrome 88 on Fedora

[eric116 (Eric Joris)]

I have the same problem here. The screen does not change into “Restore in progress”. When I do a refresh I get and error screen. In some cases I can select an other snapshot over and over again. I tried several versions from home assistant, several USB sticks and several snapshots. This drives me crazy. Please help.

[tom_l]

Updated wording from “snapshot” to “backup”.